A Tábua de Esmeralda

Artist: Jorge Ben
Label: Umvd Import
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 731451811128
EAN: 0731451811128
ASIN: B00000G7CY

Release Date: 2004-09-07

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Tracks:

Os Alquimistas Estão Chegando Os Alquimistas
O Homem da Gravata Florida
Errare Humanum Est
Menina Mulher da Pele Preta
Eu Vou Torcer
Magnólia
Minha Teimosia, Uma Arma Pra Te Conquistar
Zumbi
Brother
O Namorado da Viúva
Hermes Tri
Cinco Minutos (Five Minutos)

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Customer Reviews:

A very special album. .......2007-02-26

I highly recommend this album. Its a twist of funk, soul, bossa and Ben's vocals are outstanding (not to mention his strong guitar). The majority of the songs are good - for me "5 minutes" sends shivers down my spine every time. Track 2 and track 4 are also kicking. The only thing that kinda bothers me is the back up vocals. Some tracks have a child like orchestra in the background, which at first sounds a bit cheesy. But after listening to the album about 20 times - I have to say that it would not be the same with out the vocals.

Salve Jorge!.......2006-06-08

Simply, this CD transcend the frontiers of music. Perfect in musical content and in spiritual force, Tábua De Esmeralda is just a master piece!

Jorge Ben, you truly are the master. .......2005-06-26

In my life, I've always been searching for the perfect sound much like a surfer attempts to find the perfect wave. I don't play music, but I listen, I listen with the best of them. My tastes are wide ranging, eclectic and discerning. I'm always open minded, and on the look out for anything I haven't heard but might like.

But even when I've found a sound that I really love, and that sounds like what I've always been looking for(such as Stereolab), a wanderlust always crops up again, and thats how it should be, if we only listened to the same thing we'd become stagnant. That said, even as I go on to other music, I'd always wanted to know that I wouldn't be going on to greater music, that the music I had found was for now the pinnacle of what I'd always wanted to hear.

Jorge Ben is that sound. To me, he is the single greatest musician songwriter in the world that ever was. His sound is utterly unique and majestic, rhythmic, soulfull, spiritual, poetic, perfect. Perfect. Nothing is perfect. Except his music. The only perfect thing in an imperfect universe.

This album is spectacular. I recommend it more highly than any other. Ben is a vocal vertuoso always. A master songwriter. A man who found his inner voice and sound and nailed it down and just couldn't fail to write a mesmerizing rhythmic masterpiece.

Another reviewer here really hit it on the head when he said that Ben went 10 yrs where every year he produced a masterpiece. I have many of those masterpieces. I recommend them all.

Its quite amazing that a musician of this caliber can't even get his albums sold on Amazon. Its really a travesty that I had to go to another rare cd site for Negro E Lindo, Ben, and his collaboration with Gilberto Gil. If you're even reading this and you're American, you've traveled quite a long way off the beaten path and really discovered a musical Shangri-la. Enjoy it. You're in a special place.

THE sound........2003-06-20

This album simply sounds amazing. It's primarily driven by Jorge Ben's ultra-funky guitar playing; imagine choppy funk guitar, but played in a Spanish guitar, with a samba influence to all of it; it's got a really unique sound that really must be heard to be grasped. The one other group I'm familiar with that has a similar guitar sound is Cafý Tacuba (especially their first two albums), but it's not quite the same.

The rest of the band is also wonderful; the drum kit and synth really drive songs like "Os Alquimistas Estýo Chegando" over the top. The songs are wonderfully composed and arranged. They make a sophisticated virtue of straightforwardness; or in other words, it's amazing how such sophisticated songs can sound so simple. Jorge's singing shows great variety and effortless spontaneity. I was going to list my favorite tracks, but realized that except for "Brother", they're all great...A must-have.

full of love.......2002-09-15

this album is phenomenal -- all the previous reviewers are correct in their repective analysis. the music boars beneath your skin and becomes entwined with your soul. good music, really good music, at certain times gives you this strange shiver throughout your body as your heart opens to the infinite possibilities of the universe and for a brief, shimmering moment everything is perfect, as though you're being touched by the hand of god (if you believe in that sort of thing). this album has given me that feeling countless times. every song is so full of love that they're bursting at the seams. "zumbi," i think, might be the greatest song ever written. other favorites include "os alquimistas," "errare humanum est," "eu vou torcer," "minha teimosa," and the last three songs as well. i don't speak a lick of portugeuse, but it doesn't even matter -- i can almost tell what the songs are about without knowing the words. music is universal, afterall. a few comparisons, if you're not already sold -- a tropical, mellower james brown; or stevie wonder jamming with bob marley channeling the spirit of john coltrane. take your pick. just buy this album -- it'll change your life.

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